Friends and Liars: A thrilling, page-turning tale of small-town deceits
Paperback Published on: 03/05/2018
Price: £7.99
Synopsis
An emotionally gripping story about friendship and secrets, lies and loves.
It has been ten years since Ruby left her hometown behind. Since then she's built a life away from her recovering alcoholic mother and her first love, Murphy. But when Danny, one of her estranged friends from childhood, commits suicide, guilt draws Ruby back into the tumultuous world she escaped all those years ago.
She's dreading the funeral - and with good reason. Danny has left a series of envelopes addressed to his former friends. Inside each envelope is a secret about every person in the group. Ruby's secret is so explosive, she will fight tooth-and-nail to keep it hidden from those she once loved so deeply, even if that means risking everything...
Publisher information
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- ISBN: 9781786492074
- Number of pages: 304
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
- Languages: English
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Enjoyable and Intriguing
Friends and Liars, the debut novel by Kaela Coble, follows the web of lies and deceit woven by a group of childhood friends, Ruby, Murphy, Ally, Emmet and ... READ MORE
Going Home
Starting with the death of Danny, a group of schoolfriends get back together at his funeral and remake the connections they forged during the try... READ MORE
A REALLY GOOD BOOK!
MY REVIEW FOR "FRIENDS AND LIARS"
It has been ten years since Ruby left her hometown behind. Since then she's built a life away from her recovering alcoho... READ MORE
Left it wide open
Great story line! Really enjoyed this book and each of the characters in it, with their secrets that are slowly coming to light after a death in the group.... READ MORE
Anenjoyable and mysterious read
The premise for this book sounded really interesting, so I jumped at the chance at getting a review copy from Readers First (thank you) and was not disappo... READ MORE
Pretty amazing
Pretty amazing how this story starts and all fits together. The ending is extraordinary, it gave me full appreciation for the way the author planned out al... READ MORE
Frenemies
Set in small town Vermont, the ‘crew’ have grown up together – Danny, Emmett, Murphy, Ruby and Ally.
Ten years on, only Ruby has left town, to go to New... READ MORE
Great
FRIENDS AND LIARS it is a book which I really enjoyed.
It is a story about friends who meets after a long time during funeral of old school friend who over... READ MORE
Loved it
This book was brilliant, and had be hooked d from the beginning. I loved the diversity of the characters, portrayed honestly to create a real sense of thei... READ MORE
I liked it
I really enjoyed this novel. I particularly enjoyed the story line and getting to know the characters.
It was something different to what I usually read ... READ MORE
An evolving friendship saga providing compulsive reading.
To hear someone that I knew had committed suicide would not only shock and sadden me, it would raise the question: could I / anyone have prevented it? The ... READ MORE
Intriguing read.
CONTAINS SPOILERS.
I wasn't sure about this book at first, The idea behind it was great however I thought It started a little slow. - This might just be m... READ MORE
I kept coming back
This wasn’t my usual read, but I enjoyed the book, and most importantly I kept coming back to it. To begin with I could not put it down, then about half w... READ MORE
Emotional tale of friendship.
Following the death of Danny, his friends gather at his funeral to be presented with envelopes containing secrets about each of them.
The book sw... READ MORE